Are you looking for a way to connect deeper to the spirit of plants?

Are you looking to revive ancient and ancestral plant connections?

Are you looking to add flowers into your practice for personal and community wellness & liberation?

Are you looking for a community of plant people?

Come spend your Sundays in Flower Church, a 6 month cohort to learn about, explore, and experience the power of flower essences and plant spirit in self and community care. This will be a non-hierarchical, communal space to meet other flower freaks and plant people and experience the transformative energy of plants together. Come worship dirt and whisper to the flowers with us. Together we will revive the ancient language of plants and conjure floral magic.

Flower Essence Church Participants will receive:

• Access to pre-recorded training videos that give a deep dive into plant spirit communication, flower essences history, and how to work with and alongside plant energetics.
• Participants will then be invited to a monthly cohort meeting of about 2 hours where you will join with other cohort members in experiencing a plant/flower essence together and discussing the supportive nature of that essence and what energy that plant/flower holds for you.
• Flower Essence Kit: Every month participants will receive a plant/flower essence via mail and guidance on working with the essence over the next 4-5 weeks. Participants will not know what essence they are working with every month and will be asked to keep notes on the energy they feel while working with essence.
• Personal Flower Essence Journal to keep notes on the energy of monthly essences & deepen plant spirit communication.
• 30 minute check-in call with Courtney or Madison, which can focus on questions about plant spirit/flower essences or helping you find a personal flower essence blend.
• A certification of completion will be shared at the end of this cohort and level two certification classes will be offered to anyone who completes this cohort process.

Participants will share this experience with each other every month on a live zoom call and then receive a deep dive on the monthly essence(s) from Madison & Courtney. This cohort is not just one of sharing knowledge of essences, but of collectively rekindling our intuition and our natural ability to speak the language of plants. We will hold this space together and rekindle these ancient and ancestral connections to plant spirit in our personal and collective healing journeys.

Who is this cohort for:

• Herbalists
• Nature lovers
• Teachers
• Conflict Practitioners
• Community organizers
• Caregivers
• Counselors/ Clinicians
• Youth workers
• Healthcare workers
• Birth workers
• Grief workers
• Trauma support people
• Empaths & Highly sensitive people
• Anyone called in by the flowers

Flower essences can be a key ally in supporting yourself, your family, your community, your coworkers, your clients/patients through processing hard emotions and life experiences. This may look like an essence to support someone's heart after death of a loved one, an essence to help reground after shock, an essence for uprooting patterns learned through surviving trauma, and essence for open up understanding and healthy communication channels during an argument. The work of plant/flower essences is a never ending relationship loop between you and the healing guidance of nature. Inviting the energy of plants into yourself and community care journey and vocation can be a profound and life changing journey.

When: This cohort will launch in January 2024 and host a monthly meeting for two hours on 4th Sunday of the month from 11am-1pm CST/Noon-2pm EST via Zoom.

Dates:

January 28th: Introduction's and how to work with essences

Feb. 25th: Essence Experience Call 1

March 24th: Essence Experience Call 2

April 28th: Essence Experience Call 3

May 26th: Essence Experience Call 4

June 23rd: Essence Experience Call 5 & Certificate of Completion Celebration

Topics that will be covered in our live Essence Experience calls:

Tending to our Collective Liberation

Breaking the Emotional Ice

Tending to our Grief

Communication & Conflict Transformation

Tending to Our Joy

& MORE

Meet your hosts/the flower nerds:

• Courtney Cochran (they/she) is a queer, gender nonconforming, plant freak living on 16 acres of occupied Anishinaabe land near Knife River, Minnesota. Courtney comes from a white, Celtic, mixed European ancestry and always works to bring in ancestral plants into their practice. Courtney has been listening to and learning from plants their entire life, but she has been intentionally studying herbs since 2018. Courtney is a passionate gardener, forager, food preservation enthusiast, and chicken caretaker. Courtney’s deepest passions are talking to flowers and centering queer and trans joy, liberation, and wellness in everything they do. With a background in social work and queer liberation organizing, they come to herbalism with a unique lens that weaves a community of plant, animal, and human relations into your healing journey. Courtney has studied herbalism via Green Wisdom School of Natural & Botanical Medicine and Twin Star Herbal Center. Courtney is a Clinical Herbalist and Flower Essence Practitioner.
• Madison McCoy (she/her) is a circle keeper, flower whisperer, and student of the messy & miraculous. She is the founder of Earth and Sea, a llc with the mission to build a more equitable world by equipping individuals with generative conflict transformation tools, deep self awareness, and a reverence for the earth. Madison is a certified Personal Transformation Facilitator, flower essence practitioner, folk herbalist, and holds a degree in Community Conflict Transformation from George Mason University. She uses a whole self and trauma-informed approach & partnership with the plants to guide individuals in accessing their own deep well of healing, transformation, and imaginative power. She believes these are necessary tools to dismantle systems of oppression and through healing yourself, you heal the world. From medicinal plants to heal the body, to biomimicry: nature informs all that she does. She currently lives on a farm outside on occupied Piscataway land, an hour south of DC with her partner, farm cat, and two tortoises.

Cost: Sliding Scale $150-$650 for entire 6 month experience ; $100 nonrefundable deposit to reserve your spot (limited spots as this is an intimate cohort!)

• $150-$250 Tier: This tier is for those who struggle to meet their basic needs and have tight budgets. This tier is for those who could not afford to attend at a higher rate. This may be for folks who access public benefits such as Section 8 and/SNAP benefits. This may be for single parents, sex workers, and folks who have experienced houselessness recently. See the Green Bottle graphic below.
• $250-$450 Tier: This tier is for those who can always afford their basic needs and have some extra income (ex. able to take some vacations, able to put some money away into savings, etc.) See the Green Bottle graphic below.
• $450-$650Tier: This tier is for those who live with a flexible income, have family support, may live with inherited wealth, property, and can live comfortably and afford all of their basic needs as well as travel and recreation. This tier helps support us in offering lower cost to those who need it to access this content. See the Green Bottle graphic below.

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• Accessibility information: All monthly sessions will be hosted via Zoom. Closed captioning will be available for live calls and recordings. All materials written and verbal will be presented in the English language. Live participation is recommended, but instructional recordings of the calls and notes/materials as applicable will be shared after every cohort meeting. This space embraces people of all abilities and neurodiversity is welcome and centered in all aspects of this cohort. If there is anything that would make this space more accessible to you, do not hesitate to ask.

Liberation Centered Space: This space will be centered on liberation for all people harmed by systems of oppression and will be loudly anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive. This space will center queer and trans identities. Both cohort hosts are white people with Celtic/mixed European ancestry, but hold this space welcoming of a diversity of participants and experiences.

Reserving your space:

• Please make a $100 deposit via the link below. Once your deposit has been made, our team will reach out to you via email to organize the rest of your chosen fee from the sliding scale above via payment plan or pay in full.